Designing Quality Survey Questions

About Kimberly Firth LeonardSheila B. Robinson

Sheila B. Robinson Ed.D is an educator program evaluator and professional development workshop facilitator whose survey design experience began with assessment design in K12 public education. She is often an invited keynote speaker and workshop presenter at professional conferences consultant with educational and other organizations on survey design and program evaluation and adjunct professor of graduate courses in both program evaluation and professional development design and evaluation. Sheila is an active member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA); she is past chair of AEAs Pre-K12 Educational Evaluation Topical Interest Group Lead Curator for AEAs blog Tip-a-Day-by and For Evaluators and Coordinator of AEAs Potent Presentations Initiative. Sheila and her husband live in Rochester NY. Kimberly Firth Leonard MPA has built administered and taught others about surveys for more than a decade primarily in the context of program evaluation. Kim is currently the Senior Evaluation Officer at the Oregon Community Foundation where she manages evaluations of several large grant-making initiatives each of which includes at least one survey-based data collection component. Kim is an active member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and was president of the Oregon Program Evaluators Network in 2013. Kim lives in Portland Oregon with her husband their new baby girl two dogs and cat.